Unstolen
Because exchange often involves nonperishable items which archaeologists can later utilize to investigate and reconstruct the mechanisms, routes, and systems involved in prehistoric exchange, the connections, interactions, and transfer of interchange of ideologies as well as materials which results from trade can be uncovered. Exchange routes can be reconstructed through first identifying and then sourcing the materials, then determining how materials from these sources were distributed, utilizing this as evidence of communication networks between communities. (Armor and Sharer 2000: 206)